It is a 50mm screen that delivers 320x240 resolution, a familiar white click wheel and, on the bottom edge, a sliding switch, a dock connector and an earphone jack.
Under the hood, it will have a 4GB or 8GB drive. The smaller capacity device will hold about 1000 songs, or 3500 photos or four hours of video. Double that, for the bigger one.
The iPod has already become one of the world's most successful consumer gadgets, commanding between 60 and 80 per cent of the digital music player market, depending on which figures you use.
iPod nano
$199 - 4GB - choice of one colour
$279 - 8GB - choice of five colours
The nano is yet another head-turning addition to a range that looks and feels great and now comes with many more features.
The designers of the first iPod famously threw away the concept of a dedicated on/off button and it's still missing - as is the FM radio function and remove-it-yourself batteries that you find in many other players.
The new model is wider and chunkier than its predecessor, a change forced upon the designers because of the need to accommodate the new video functionality previously found only in the larger, more expensive iPods.
However, it's probably better suited to viewing two- to four-minute-long music video clips than it is to watching full-length movies.
One big change to the interface is the addition of the Cover Flow feature that Apple brought out with the iPhone, which was launched in June. This allows you to flick
The nano also comes pre-loaded with a couple of games including a trivia quiz, a Minesweeper-type game and a solitaire game.
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